Thousands of patients with undiagnosed hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or HIV have been identified through a testing programme for bloodborne viruses run in hospital emergency departments. The programme was launched in April 2022 and now covers 34 emergency departments in areas in England with the highest HIV prevalence.

A HERPES-ridden monkey is on the run – after a truck carrying “aggressive” primates infected with hepatitis C and Covid-19 flipped over. Authorities are hunting the loose Rehsus

In 2005, Nick Voyles was diagnosed with hepatitis C after being released from five years of incarceration. A nurse told him he had only six months to live. He was prescribed a drug cocktail, a combination of interferon and ribavirin, that proved ...

Direct-acting antiviral medication can cure hepatitis C, but it can’t prevent you from catching the virus again. Here’s how to avoid contracting it in the future. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the only treatment for hepatitis C (HCV) was interferon ...

New medications called direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) have transformed the treatment of hepatitis C. Twelve weeks on one of these drugs cures the infection in 95 percent or more of people who take it. But what if you’re among the 5 percent for whom they ...